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The Christian missionary mindset is generally depicted as that ofsimple religious folk with a pure desire to peacefully spread theirgospel and message of love. In reality, their methods of propagationare often anything but peaceful and usually leave behind a nativepopulation stripped of their culture and often decimated. WithChristianity failing in the west, the evangelists seek new andgreener fields in the poor and uneducated sections of third worldcountries, backed by huge coffers from the less zealous, who arenonetheless convinced that to bring civilization and religion to thepoor natives is a noble cause, even if they don't want it.Missionaries often intermix military campaigns with missionarycampaigns in their fervor to "civilize the heathens," who are oftensimple happy natives, whose only crime is that they are notChristians. This mood of conquering the heathens by any means, at anycost, is supported in the Bible:

"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign overthem, bring hither, and slay them before me." (Luke 19.27)

In the words of one resident of Thailand, "They [Christianmissionaries] seemed that they did not show any interest for ourculture. Why? They are just eager to build big churches in everyvillage. It seems that they are having two faces; under the title ofhelp they suppress us. To the world, they gained their reputations asbenefactors of disappearing tribes. They built their reputations onus for many years. The way they behaved with us seemed as if we didnot know about god before they arrived here."[1]

"Why do missionaries think they are the only ones who can perceiveGod?"

In fact, most of the civilizations which were overrun by zealousChristians in their conversion fervor, were highly evolved in theirmoral standards, with complex social structures, high standards ofcleanliness and hygiene, decorative art and evolved sciences, andcontent with their own religion.

The arrival of Christianity actually caused these civilizations tomove backwards. In this regard we need only look to Europe, for theDark Ages of Europe is a time when the Church was in control. The Ageof Enlightenment (Renaissance) began when the common people werefreed from the tyranny of the Christian church.

Christian missionaries have oppressed many cultures, buildingchurches atop temples, mosques and shrines. For example, the majorchurches in Rome are built atop pagan temples and many historians saythat the Vatican itself is built on the ruins of a Mithra (the RomanSungod) temple. The major Christian holy days are all taken from thepagan holy days. In fact, it is claimed by many historians andreligious scholars that the entirety of Christianity is borrowed fromother religions and cultures and is fraudulent -- Christ is anamalgamation of a number of personalities existing prior to the[presumed] time of Christ. [See also: The Borrowing Theory]

CHRISTIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM

Because Christians believe that Jesus Christ suffered for the sins ofothers, they use this belief for their own purposes by "lettingChrist suffer while they, the Christians, go on committing sin andcrime."

That is why the Christians go on slaughtering the Non-Christians,totally worry-free and with a totally clean conscience, becauseChrist will take care of their sins and crimes, and because theydon't have to face the laws of Karm and Re-incarnation or theveritable consequences of these laws. It does not even occur to anaverage Christian to ask himself/herself a simple question, that if aperson commits a murder and he tells the court that his Father willsuffer in his place, will the court accept the substitute to sufferthe sentence? An average Christian does not even think that if anycourt accepted this kind of substitution, then the justice system ofthe world, as we know it, would be totally destroyed and chaos wouldensue.

History is witness to the mass destruction of countless cultures, andthe almost complete genocide of entire races at the hands ofChristianity. History is now proving that most cultures destroyed byChristianity far outweighed in morals and dignity what they werereplaced by.

Since the effects of much missionary work, the cultural traditions ofa people being replaced by some form of Christianity, areintentional, this means by definition (according to the UnitedNations) that genocide is the missionary profession: converting otherpeoples to Christianity and thus destroying them as an ethnicalgroup, and denying the right of native peoples to exist as what theyare, with their own culture, language, and religion. For a variety ofreasons a massive depopulation, in other words the death of a largepercentage of the native population, follows.[2] And this so-calledrighteous work continues even today around the world in the name of[Christian] humanitarian work.

The plain and simple truth is that people never give up theirreligion, any more than they give up their children or theirparents...except when they are pressured with use of force or areoffered attractive allurements. The Christian Slogan that "Faith inJesus is the only way to Salvation," besides being totally false, isalso totally ineffective, in gaining converts. Trickery, treachery,bribery, and bayonetry, therefore, has to be used to obtain converts.

The Christian Missionaries know this blatant truth and Christianity'sbrutal and barbaric record of twenty centuries in winning converts,is a testament to the savage methods of Christianity. [3]

'The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly, has made theworld evil and ugly.'

– Friedrich Nietzsche

CRUSADES

Many people think that the crusades were holy wars to liberate holylands from non-Christians. But few are informed that many of thecrusades were against other Christian sects, that many of theseCrusades were launched for other purposes, such as the drowning ofalmost 6,000 Protestants by Spanish Catholic troops in theNetherlands in 1568, the sacking of the German city of Magdeburg inthe 17th century, slaying 30,000 Protestants, followed by a 30 yearwar between Catholics and Protestants in which more than 40% of thepopulation (mostly Germans) were decimated.

Probably the most revealing event was the capture and pillage of theOrthodox Christian bastion of Constantinople by the members of theFourth Crusade in 1204, creating an animosity between Catholics andOrthodox Christians which has lasted into the 20th century.

In reality, the Crusades were the most ambitious Christian warenterprise and its most conspicuous failure. It was the attempt toforce together all the known world and all mankind under the bishopof Rome, the Catholic Pope.

The Christian Crusades inspired the most bloodthirsty cruelty, andthe greediest vandalism of medieval men. Politically motivated andfanatically aggravated, usurping all land and decimating all peopleswho would not surrender to the Vatican. The Crusaders rolled over allwho could not withstand their pillage and carnage like bloodthirstyconquerors.

By the end of the crusades, most European Christians believed theunfounded blood-libel myths -- the rumor that Jews engaged in humansacrifice of Christian children. A long series of Christianpersecutions of the Jews continued in Europe and Russia into the 20thcentury. They laid the foundation for the Nazi Holocaust. [4]

WITCH BURNINGS

Of course we have all heard of the Salem Witch Hunts of 1691-1692 andthe burning of a number of "witches" alive at the stake by thePuritans. But did you know that the Salem witches were all proveninnocent? Of course, this was found out after they were burned. Didyou also know that this witch burning, carried out all over the worldto the tune of several hundred thousand dead (80% women), wasinitiated by the Catholic church to rid their dominion of so-calledheretics and was directly related to their mandate to re-populateEurope after the Black Death or plagues of the 1300's, because theirserfs were decreased by one third, thereby reducing the Church'sprofit by one third, since they owned about 30% of Europe's lands.[5]The ladies (midwives) were accused of impeding the birth rate -- allbirth control knowledge was vigorously erased, so much so that 20thcentury scholars believed birth control was a modern invention. TheInquisitors wrote, "No one is more dangerous and harmful to theCatholic faith than the midwives."

Pope Innocent VIII's infamous Witch Bull of 1484, launched severalcenturies of persecution of so-called witches. Several hundredthousand women, children and men (about 20%) were tortured and burnedat the stake or hanged. The Malleus Maleficarum (the Witches Hammeror Handbook of the Inquisitors), available online here as a pdf -

], written by two Dominican monks, was perhaps responsible for morewidespread bloodshed than any other publication (Christian orotherwise). The policy of torturing, burning and hanging of supposedheretics has been the church's policy for centuries, whenever theycould get away with it. Between the fifteenth and eighteenthcenturies about a half a million people were executed for witchcraft,most of them women.

PERSECUTIONS OF THE JEWS

There is a long history of the persecution of Jews by Christians,starting with the burning of synagogues in the 4th century, tonumerous killings of Jews who would not convert to Christianity, tothe extermination of Jewish communities in many European countries,all the way to a number of extermination camps during World War II inYugoslavia, headed by a Franciscan Friar and run by Catholics, whichwere the equal of the German kilns of Auschwitz -- killing about halfa million people alone in this small country[5.5].

Hitler Himself justified the extermination of the Jews citing theBible and Jesus:

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as afighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surroundedonly by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were andsummoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatestnot as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christianand as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lordat last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of theTemple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight forthe world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousandyears, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than everbefore in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His bloodupon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to becheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth andjustice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that weare acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as aChristian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out inthe morning and see these men standing in their queues and look intotheir pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but avery devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lordtwo thousand years ago, turn against those (the Jews) by whom to-daythis poor people is plundered and exploited.":

Have you seen the Rwanda movie? Do you know that a substantial numberof priests, nuns and even Bishops were indicted and a great many wereconvicted (by war crimes tribunals) for being directly responsiblefor the senseless slaughter of thousands of innocent Tutsis? Manyclergy turned over those who had taken shelter in their churches tothe machetes of the Hutu militia. The hatred and division between theHutus and Tutsis was propagated by the missionaries as favorable fortheir objectives of conversion to Christianity.

One priest even burned down his own church to kill hundreds of Tutsiswho had taken sanctuary there. Two priests were sentenced to death in1998 for their roles in this genocide and two Benedictine nuns whosupplied gasoline for the burning of Tutsi civilians sheltered intheir church fled to Belgium where they were later convicted ofcomplicity to murder.

"Sister Maria Kisito, who received 12 years, and her Mother Superior,Sister Gertrude, who received 15 years, were convicted of aiding inthe slaughter of some 7,000 people who sought refuge at their conventin southern Rwanda. Prosecutors argued that they called in Hutumilitiamen to drive people out of the convent knowing they would bekilled, and later provided gasoline that militiamen used to set fireto a garage in which about 500 Tutsis had taken refuge." (WashingtonPost, June 9, 2001)[6]

Of course the Catholic Church has claimed their clergy were actingindependently of the church, even though much of the most notablegenocide occurred in churches and it is well known that the church'spolicy has been for centuries to divide and convert, to sewdissention between ethnic groups and then move in and take advantageof the chaos to offer Christian solace and conversion.

In the end nearly one million civilians were butchered.

TAHITI & THE PACIFIC

We all remember the story of Captain Bligh and the Mutiny on theBounty. However, hardly anyone knows that the crew mutinied becausethey were so attracted to the idyllic life on Tahiti -- the crew wasdetermined to return to Tahiti and not go to England. Captain Cookhimself wrote of "these happy islands and the good people on them."Further, he later wrote, "It would have been far better for thesepoor people never to have known us."

In 1797, the London Missionary Society put its first missionaries onthe shores of Tahiti. Fourteen years later they had not made oneconvert, even though the happy Tahitians provided them with servantsgalore, built their houses and fed them. Finally the Christiansdevised an ingenious plan, which 'converted' the entire island in oneday. According to a letter written home by brethren J. M. Orsmond,one of their own members, they reduced the local chief, Pomare, to analcoholic and backed him in a war against other island chiefs,supplying him with firearms, to be used against the other islandersclubs. The understanding was that with his victory all would beforced to convert. Then, a reign of terror followed where non-believers were killed. It was declared illegal by the Christians foranyone to decorate themselves with flowers, to sing (other thanhymns), to surf or dance. Within 25 years the native culture ofTahiti and the entire Pacific was extinguished.

The attempt to make the Tahitians into service growers of sugar canefailed and the good Christian Mr. Orsmond, deciding that "a bountifulnature diminishes men's natural desire to work," had all thebreadfruit trees cut down. Such practices, as well as diseases(brought from outside), such as syphilis, tuberculosis and smallpoxreduced the original population (estimated by Cook at 200,000) to6,000 after thirty years of missionary rule.

Their power base firmly established in Tahiti, the missionaries movedswiftly to the outer islands, using the same techniques. Theyintroduced a local chieftan to the bottle, crowned him king andinduced him to carry out the Christian's work of conquering andconverting at sword point.

The Polynesians and Melanesian people were also very cultured andintertwined with the processes of creation. They decorated everythingwith intricate wood carvings and flowers and produced many beautifulthings. Yet by 1850 all this was gone, the only remaining vestige ofthese great cultures were the grass skirts and swaying hips for thetourists. Prior to the Christianization of Polynesia and Hawaii thelocal dances were mostly performed by men of the priesthood, theChristians turned such dances as the Hula into a sex show for thetourists. The Christian conquest of the Pacific was complete.

HAWAII

Not only did the missionaries and the Europeans bring the Bible toHawaii they also brought diseases to the native population. TheBritish explorer Captain James Cook's visit to Hawaii in 1778 isgenerally credited with the 'discovery' of Hawaii but history revealsthat others had been there before. Many missionaries followed.

The Hawaiians, like the American Indians, had no idea what privateproperty meant. The missionaries decided the land belonged to themand not the native Hawaiian population. With the help of the Americandiplomatic representative at Honolulu, the Hawaiian capitol, and theaid of the United States warship Boston, a coup d'etat wasimplemented. The Boston landed Marines and sailors. The Americanmissionary party formed a provisional Government and endeavored tomake a treaty with the United States looking for annexation. Later,when President McKinley came to office the request of the rumpGovernment for annexation was undertaken.

The original missionaries to Hawaii ended up large landowners.

Although the missionaries were a small handful of the population theyended up with vast land holdings to the exclusion of the nativeHawaiians, who had lived there for thousands of years. Put simply,the missionaries stole their land.

The missionaries did everything possible to destroy the ethnicHawaiian culture, from banning all Hawaiian religious practices,walking barefoot, and even banning a faultless sport like surfing.

Christians [according to the Hawaiians] are said to have introducedthe mosquito into Hawaii in the hopes that this would force thenatives to wear more clothes. Only in modern times has pride inHawaiian art, song, dance and religion been revived.

"When the Christians came to these islands they said, take thisBible, close your eyes and pray, so we did; when we opened our eyesall we had was this Bible and the white man had all our Islands."Hawaiian Kahuna

COLUMBUS & THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS

Christopher Columbus, a trader of African slaves, is best known asthe 'so-called' discoverer of America. In his personal log, Columbuswrote that, his purpose in seeking undiscovered worlds was "to bringthe Gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathens." [Columbus' Book ofProphecies]

On his first voyage Columbus described the natives as follows:

"The people of this island and of all other islands which I havefound and seen, ... all ... are so artless and free with all theypossess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Ofanything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; ratherthey invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if theywere giving their hearts..." But Colombus' mission was to take theland for Christendom and convert all these peoples to Christianity orexterminate them and replace their culture, hence:

In whichever island he touched (on his second voyage) his men killedindiscriminately whatever animals and natives they found, "lootingand destroying all they found," as Columbus' son Fernando put it. Thenatives were either killed or enslaved. Columbus commented in thisregard, that the natives "ought to be good servants... and wouldeasily be made Christians," because he saw his affairs as the"fulfillment of prophecies in Isaiah." To any objections from thenatives, Columbus responded with, "...with the help of God, we shall.. make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, andshall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and ofTheir Highness. We shall take you and your wives and your children,and shall make slaves of them." [7]

Eyewitnesses recalled, "Once the Indians were in the woods, the nextstep was to form squadrons and pursue them, and whenever theSpaniards found them, they pitilessly slaughtered everyone likesheep... So they would cut an Indian's hands and leave themdangling... Some Christians encounter an Indian women, and since thedog they had with them was hungry, they tore the child from themother's arms and flung it still living to the dog..." After all, theIndians were only infidels."

Of Columbus' second voyage, it has been further written: "TheSpaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd cruelties...They built a long gibbet, long enough for the toes to touch theground to prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a timein honor of Christ Our Savior and the twelve apostles... then, strawwas wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive." [8]

In less than a decade after Columbus' first landing the nativepopulation of the island of Hispaniola (Santo Domingo & Haiti)-- andthousands and thousands of people -- had dropped by a third to ahalf.

Before the next century ended, the populations of Cuba and many otherCaribbean islands had been virtually exterminated.

NORTH AMERICA

VIRGINIA The Charter for the Virginia Colony stated that its purposewas to bring the Christian religion to those in ignorance of trueknowledge of God.

Historian Edmund S. Morgan compiled the following description fromChristian accounts of events occurring in one of the earliestsettlements of English Christians, in Roanoke, Virginia in 1580:

"Wingina [the local chief] welcomed the visitors, and the Indiansgave freely of their supplies to the English, who had lost most oftheir own when the Tyger [their ship] grounded." [9]

"Indian openness and generosity were met with European stealth andgreed. Ritualized Indian warfare, in which few people died in battle,was met with the European belief in devastating holy war. Vast storesof grain and other food supplies that Indian peoples had lain asidebecame the fuel that [later] drove the Europeans forward." [10]

"Indians who came to the English settlements with food for theBritish (who seemed never able to feed themselves) were captured,accused of being spies, and executed. Peace treaties were signed withevery intention to violate them: when the Indians 'grow secure upponthe treatie,' advised the Counsel of State in Virginia, 'we shallhave the better advantage both to surprise them & cutt downe theireCorne.' " [11]

Arthur Barlowe, one of the first Christians ever to set foot onVirginia soil, described the natives he encountered in 1584 asfollows:

"...we were entertained with all love and kindness and with as muchbounty, ...as they could possibly devise. We found the people mostgentle loving, and faithfull, void of all guile and treason ... amore kind and loving people there cannot be found in the world, asfarre as we have hitherto had triall." [12]

Their supposedly Christian treatment of these friendly nativeAmericas was that:

"...we burnt, and spoyled their corne, and Towne, all the peoplebeeing fledde." [13]

MIDWEST

Greed drove over a hundred thousand intruders into the area by 1825,few of whom were ever expelled. Though protection from intruders wasa guarantee to the Cherokee by treaty, which the State of Georgia andthe federal government were supposed to uphold it was never given theslightest honor by white interests. Forts were established to policeagainst intruders but what they did was to harass the Cherokee andprovide safety and protection for whites from those who tried toprotect their families.

The State of Georgia insured no Cherokee would ever receive justiceby forbidding the testimony or presence of any Native American in acourt of law, period, just like the Nuremberg Laws of 1936 againstJews in Germany. This gave all whites free rein to terrorize, stealand kill any Native person they wanted to. No Cherokee "removed"because they wanted to, it was because the protection they wereassured by treaty obligation was never provided.

The missionaries who entered Indian country were sent there to"civilize" the native people. They acquired this position bynegotiation through treaty and were given vast amounts of land andguaranteed subsidies administered by the federal government out oftribal money. This money never touched the hands of the Cherokee andmost often none was left after missionary, Indian agents,superintendents and corrupt tribal government leaders got done withit.

In 1832 Congress appropriated $12,000 dollars to begin the fightagainst smallpox in Indian country, 20 years after they did the samefor whites. Significantly, actual vaccination expenditures that firstyear "for smallpox and certain other things" amounted to only $1,786,as opposed to $5,721 for "missionary improvement" and $9,424 for the"civilization of the Indians." One year later, in 1833, actualexpenditures were down to $721. [14]

This is why most Native Americans today who are knowledgeable oftheir history are pointing out that the United States Governmentwaged genocide against their people. When medicine to heal childrenand families from a deadly and mortal disease is withheld, thatagency which does this crime against humanity is committing genocide.

"Civilizing" meant taking children away from their parents at theages of 5-12 years and forcing them to live without father, mother,sister or brother in missionary schools, if you can imagine thatbeing done to a little child. This practice was not exclusive to theearly years of American history but continued up until the mid 1970'sin this country. Children were beaten and given forced labor duringtheir stay in school. Participation was "optional" but missionariescontrolled the annuities of food and trust money through theirrelationship with superintendents and the military. Families that didnot surrender their children did not receive food or payments thatwere supposed to be guaranteed to them.

Very young children caught in this situation were brainwashed totreat their parents as savages and barbarians and they sufferedterribly under this psychological torture. By this method throughseveral generations, Cherokees, like most Native Americans werestripped of the knowledge of their heritage, religious beliefs andtrust of their family supports.

This is why it is called a Red Holocaust and fits the United Nationsaccords for genocide. Any people whose children are taken from themin order to destroy the religious, spiritual, racial and culturalheritage of that people are victims of genocide.

The pressure to build a slave based empire on Native Cherokee soilwas highly successful. Thomas Jefferson who wrote the removal policyand openly supported genocide of Native Americans declared, "If everwe are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe we willnever lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or is drivenbeyond the Mississippi... they will kill some of us; we shall destroyall of them." [15]

Missionary work was very big business. It afforded the building ofcareers, growth of denominational influence in regions that formedeconomic bases of support. Churches were established throughlucrative payments from Indian funds and lands, which were deeded foruse as farms, timber production and for sale in financing furtherventures, not the least of which was buying selling and working theirslaves.

Churches and missionaries were aggressively competing for governmentcontracts among the Native American people all the way up until the1970's when Native American Education legislation made it toodifficult for the government to sever lands for missionary workwithout compensation.

To give some insight into the abuse of law that the State of Georgiain the early 19th century used to terrorize the Cherokee, thebanishment of "intruders" was only enforced against whites, who stoodup for the Cherokee by representing their interests. It was also usedby whites through the... spoils system to get rid of squatters whoseland was coveted by another white. Those whites who took publicstands for Native people in the area were thrown out. Worcester wasone such missionary. He returned and was thrown into prison for ayear for his stand on Cherokee rights.

It is especially telling that while almost no Indians voluntarilylived among the colonists, the number of whites who ran off to livewith the natives was a problem often remarked upon. Historian JamesAxtell has concluded that the whites who chose to remain among thenatives

"...stayed because they found Indian life to possess a strong senseof community, abundant love, and uncommon integrity -- values thatthe European colonists also honored... But Indian life was attractivefor other values -- for social equality, mobility, adventure, and astwo adult converts acknowledged, 'the most perfect freedom, the easeof living, [and] the absence of those cares and corroding solicitudeswhich so often prevail with us.' " [16]

After a century and a half of permanent British settlement in NorthAmerica, even Benjamin Franklin joined numerous earlier commentatorslamenting that

"...when an Indian child has been brought up among us, taught ourlanguage and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see hisrelations and make one Indian Ramble with them, there is noperswading them ever to return.

[But] when white persons of either sex have been taken prisonersyoung by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho' ransomed bytheir Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevailwith them to stay among the English, yet in a short time they becomedisgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that arenecessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity ofescaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaimingthem." [17]

Since they were uttered by one of America's founding fathers,however, the most widely admired of the South's slaveholdingphilosophers of freedom, they conveniently have become lost to mosthistorians in their insistent celebration of Jefferson's wisdom andhumanity." Further references available. [18]

CALIFORNIA MISSIONS

The book, The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide, edited byRupert Costo and Jeannette Henry Costo [19] (Indian rightsactivists), spells out the apparent brutality of the CaliforniaFranciscan missionaries (and their founder Junipero Serra, who was tobe made a saint) against the North American Indians; citing numerouscontemporary accounts of the brutality and degrading conditionsendemic to the mission system in California.

Interviews from 1985 with eight scholars (arranged by the CatholicDiocese of Monterey in defense of Serra) actually contain thestrongest evidence against the mission system itself. Theethnocentrism of the interviewees and their at times embarrassinglack of knowledge regarding Indian ways, leads to numerousquestionable assertions. Serra's supporters generally acknowledgethat the methods employed to convert the Indians would be unthinkablefor missionaries to use today.

The work of A. L. Kroeber, Sherburne Cook, Robert Heizer (all citedin the text) and others establishes that the arrival of the Europeanswas a cultural and demographic catastrophe for the CaliforniaIndians. Too often it is forgotten that Serra aimed not just toconvert the Indians to Catholicism but to eradicate Indian culture aswell. It is in this sense that the book's subtitle. "A Legacy ofGenocide" is justified.

Many of Serra's fiercest critics are individuals actively engaged inefforts to heal Indian society by recovering and honoring thetraditional ways that bound tribes together for centuries. Theattempt to sanctify a man who dedicated his life to the destructionof those ways is, understandably, galling to them.

Some accounts shed further light on the missions activities:

[T]he Puritan minister John Robinson had complained to Plymouth'sWilliam Bradford that although a group of massacred Indians no doubt"deserved" to be killed, "Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if youhad converted some before you killed any!" [20]

And kill them they did... At the mission of Nuestra Sentora deLoreto, reported the Franciscan chronicler Father Francisco Palone,during the first three years of Franciscan rule 76 children andadults were baptized, while 131 were buried... The same held true atothers, from the mission of Santa Rosalin¡ de Mulegne, with 48baptisms and 113 deaths, to the mission of San Ignacio, with 115baptisms and 293 deaths -- all within the same initial three yearperiod.

MEXICO CITY

Unlike European cities of the late 1400's, which were filled withsqualor and disease (most Europeans never took a bath in their entirelife, hence the invention of French perfume) [D.E. Stannard, AmericanHolocaust. Columbus and the conquest of the New World, NewYork/Oxford 1992, pg. 59], Mexico was clean. The twin cities ofTenochtitlan and Tlateloico, know today as Mexico City, maintainedhigh standards: wastes were hauled away by barge and composted forfertilizer, a thousand men swept and washed the streets every day.Refined Aztecs, who bathed daily, found it advisable to hold flowersto their noses when they met Europeans, who made it a point of beingfilthy. Most of Mexico's streets were canals and an aquaduct broughtdrinking water from mountain springs. [21]

Hernan Cortez felt that this was by far the most beautiful city onearth, stated: "All of these houses have very large and very goodrooms and very pleasing gardens of various sorts of flowers..." [22]The Christian visitors were astonished by the personal cleanlinessand hygiene of the colorfully dressed populace, and by theirextravagant (to the Christians) use of soaps, deodorants, and breathsweeteners.

[23]

The Mexicans [Aztecs] were tolerant of other peoples, such as theOtomi, who lived among them. These had their own religion, culture,language... tribal hatreds did not seem to exist within the Mexicanbody politic." [24]

As a consequence of Columbus' 'discovery,' less than a century afterhis voyage the city had been sacked by Christians, its buildings andbeautiful gardens burnt and devastated. The city's inhabitants, whobefore Columbus had known only temporary slavery as a means ofjudicial correction, were either dead or permanent slaves to aChurch-approved colonial feudal government, or directly to a Churchwhich burned at the stake any survivors unwilling to be converted toa religion which even faithful Christians of today could onlydescribe as a hopeless medley of absurd or revolting superstitions --one has only to think of the reliquaries, collections of skulls,bones, teeth, or other remains of so-called saints, enshrined andopenly displayed to be worshiped -- in any given Christian Church ofthe time.

THE PHILIPPINES

Shortly after the Spanish American war of 1898, the US obtained legalright to the Philippines via the Treaty of Paris. President McKinleystated that "military occupation of the islands is declared to be toprotect the people." For the president, American duty compelled theUS to "uplift and civilize and Christianize them [the Philippines],and by God's grace do the very best we could for them." The Filipinoshad not requested this, but their will was ignored as was theirrevolutionary government, and new constitution. The Filipinoresistance to this American 'help,' was met with military might. TheUS command stated that, "it may be necessary to slaughter one-half ofthe rebellious Filipinos in order to bring the other half intosubjection."

Well over 200,000 Filipinos lost their lives in their struggleagainst American imperialism. The Methodist church, great championsof this war of 'divine mission,' did not distinguish imperialism fromthe mission of evangelization. James Henry Potts, editor of theMichigan Christian Advocate, was so confident of the righteousness ofthe cause that the human cost simply did not matter and we must"conquer the rebellious Filipinos and give them the blessings of thebest administration possible... Those islands are ours."Propagandists portrayed the Filipino resistance leaders as notrepresenting the general will of the Filipinos, but were dismayedthat they continued to resist. After all, Americans "knew what wasbest for the Filipinos," they needed American guidance, but showed"no appreciation of the fact that America had lifted the gallingSpanish yoke from their necks..." [replacing it, unfortunately, withtheir own yoke.]

The previous arbitrary cruel treatment of the Filipinos by theSpaniards was repeated by the American oppressors in their new view,as necessary measures to subdue the Filipino rebels. Thus the blamefor their violent actions was transferred from the perpetrator of theaction to the victim. This became clear when the public learned thatU.S. soldiers perpetrated grave acts against mankind, including thebrutal torture and execution of prisoners, the burning and looting ofFilipino towns and the forced relocation of civilians.

Six hundred saloons had sprung up in Manila, which became over onethousand by 1900, (where formerly there were less than ten) and thearmies' abuses were blamed on alcohol. The Detroit Annual Conferenceof Methodists focused on temperance and overlooked the heinousactivities committed by the army.

The cries of "God wills it," were the religious justification for theassertion of political power fused with missionary zeal. ReverendWilliam Oldham declared that "the roar of the (American) cannon wasthe voice of Almighty God declaring (the Philippines) shall befreed."

It was the mission of the Americans to spread the faith, and like theholy crusaders before, military conquest was the first step in this"holiest of wars."

The eyes of the church were resolutely focused on American Protestantvictory against Filipino independence and Catholicism. How far astraythese Methodist missionaries had gone, is clearly illustrated by thestatement of Editor Potts who proclaimed that the "worst war in thePhilippines is yet to come," since the Protestant missionariesencountered deeply entrenched Catholic beliefs and institutions whichwere viewed as opposing American principles and systems. Patriotismand Christianity had become indistinguishable and the Filipinosdefense was perceived by these Christian invaders as unjustifiableresistance operating under the spell of 'Satan's Arts.'

BURMA and THAILAND

Accounts from local residents claim that:

The American Baptist Paul Lewis sterilized more than 20,000 Akha HillTribe women in Burma's Eastern Shan State alone. This was donesecretly, and blood was stolen from these women for resale, takenduring the sterilization procedure. More than 3,000 of the womendied.

[25]

In Akha traditional culture, five people serve as the government inone village. This multiperson leadership system in villages waseliminated and replaced by single pastors who rule the villages withan iron fist, allowing no dissent or return to the traditional ways.

These changes have sewn havoc amongst the locals.

"There would be no traditional practices, songs, or dances at allnow, possibly something would be allowed at Christmas. The woman whopractices the traditional knowledge and medicine for the village wasstopped. She was told that it was evil and that she could no longertreat people's illnesses. In the name of their religious beliefs, andquite in contradiction with the spirit of those beliefs, themissionaries are eradicating Akha culture in village after village.

[26]

A Thai speaks out on mission activities in Thailand:

"Especially in Thailand, due to the high levels of prostitution,under the name of safeguarding young women, boarding schools forgirls sprout up. But then the girls no longer want to marry Akha[non-Christian] men." [27]

"Regarding religion, at the beginning it seemed to be very good.

Later, it turned out to be a division among the people. Some becameCatholics, some Protestants, some still holding their ancestorsoffering while others became Buddists. All these, they could not faceto one another. The missionaries often cause dissention in thevillages without permission of the village leaders."

"Now we want to raise a question, how good is Christianity then? Ifthat is good enough, why there are so many groups, teaching aboutJesus and yet fighting one another? First they divided our people nowthey are dividing our villages and families. We seem to be like aprey for them. Better not to have one of them than having all ofthem."

VIETNAM

Perhaps, you remember seeing the news videos of Buddhists burningthemselves with gasoline in the 1960's? Do you know why they burnedthemselves? They were protesting the discriminatory treatment andtorture by the fanatical Catholic South Vietnamese government of NgoDinh Diem, installed by the U.S. military. With the Vaticansinfluence, led by Cardinal Spellman, democratic elections werestopped in Vietnam, and Dim installed. This was followed by the ill-fated Vietnam war.

Do you think that the government of the U.S.A. stands for democracyin every country? Actually they are only for democracies that elect agovernment favorable to or are cooperative with U.S. foreignpolicies.

If they are not agreeable with and subordinate to U.S. interests,then covert U.S. forces make arrangements for other leaders, likeMussaraf in Pakistan, like so many leaders in South or CentralAmerica or Diem in Vietnam, to take power.

CHINA

Although most everyone has heard of the Boxer Rebellion in China in1900, few know that this rebellion was directly a reaction of theChinese people to the Christian missionaries who swarmed into thecountry in order to convert the poor, illiterate, and defenselessChinese. The rebellion was of course suppressed by the countries thatwere patronizing the converting missionaries.

In October of 2000, over twenty Chinese scholars, experts on historyand religion, held a symposium, exposing the crimes committed by thethen recently "canonized" foreign missionaries and their followers.

Scholars listed a number of facts to illustrate that in modernhistory the activities of Catholic missionaries were closely linkedwith the invasion of China by foreign forces.

Prof. Dai Yi said, "Lots of foreign missionaries followed thewarships of foreign aggressors to China in and after the Opium War,and actually foreign aggression and missionaries' activities arecombined into one. That is, missionaries' activities were an integralpart of invasion, missionaries acted as guides and tools for foreignaggressors and in return, aggressors paved the way for themissionaries' activities." It is the foreign missionaries that shouldanswer for the consequences to their actions because their monstrousevils exasperated the Chinese people and eventually fused theoutburst of the Yi He Tuan (known as Boxers) Movement.

Participants in the symposium pointed out that foreign missionariesexecuted in certain "religious cases," such as Auguste Chapdelaine,Franciscus de Capillas and Albericus Crescitelli, had only themselvesto blame for still being hated by people today, because they hadstopped no evil.

The Holy See, disregarding the strong opposition from the Chinesepeople, "canonized" these infamous missionaries, which reveals theVatican's "vicious intention to intervene in China's internal affairsthrough religious activities," the scholars said, pointing out thatthe "canonization" tramples on the sovereignty of the ChineseCatholic Church, as well as a severe provocation to the 1.2 billionChinese people.

The scholars all voiced their protest over the perverse and viciousdeeds of the Vatican, saying that the present China is strong enoughto protect its national security and national dignity and any attemptto distort history and humiliate the Chinese people is doomed tofailure.

The Chinese government's obvious reaction to such Christian preachingactivities over many centuries has been to ban all conversion effortsin China.

INDIA

India's first major contact with Christianity began when Vasco daGama, from Portugal, landed with gunboat and priests in 1498... Thenewcomers were not only merchants but also devout Christians orderedby the Pope: "... to invade, conquer, and subject all the countrieswhich are under rule of the enemies of Christ, Saracens (Moslems whofought against the Christian Crusaders in the middle ages) orPagan...."

Hindus were forced to convert or faced torture and death. Thousandshad to flee Goa in order to keep their culture and religious beliefs.

The historian Gaspar Correa described what Vasco da Gama did, thus:

"When all the Indians had thus been executed, he ordered them tostrike upon their teeth with staves and they knocked them down theirthroats; as they were put on board, heaped on top of each other,mixed up with the blood which streamed from them; and he ordered matsand dry leaves to be spread over them and sails to be set for theshore and the vessels set on fire... " Before killing and burning theinnocent Hindus he had their hands, ears and noses cut off.

.."When the Zamorin (head of the Hindu population) sent anotherBrahmin (Hindu Priest) to Vasco to plead for peace, he had his lipscut off and his ears cut off. The ears of a dog were sewn on himinstead and the Brahmin was sent back to Zamorin in that state. TheBrahmin... had brought with him three young boys, two of them hissons and the other a nephew. They were hanged from the yardarm andtheir bodies sent ashore."

Francis Xavier, a Jesuit Priest, came soon after Vasco da Gama, withthe firm resolve of uprooting Hinduism from the soil of India andplanting Christianity in its place. His sayings and doings have beendocumented in his numerous biographies. Francis Xavier, wrote backhome,

"As soon as I arrived in any heathen village, when all are baptized,I order all the temples of their false gods to be destroyed and allthe idols to be broken to pieces. I can give you no idea of the joy Ifeel in seeing this done." The Church had a special way of dealingwith converted Hindus who were suspected of not observing Christianrites with appropriate rigour and enthusiasm, or even of covertlypracticing their old faith: "...the culprits would be tracked downand burnt alive."[28]

Xavier called for an inquisition, recorded by historians as beingmore horrendous and barbaric than any prior to that. Thousands weretortured mutilated and killed. Thousands had to flee Goa in order tokeep their traditional culture and religion.

It is recorded that between 600 and 1,000 Hindu temples and shrineswere destroyed, but many consider these numbers to be on theconservative side. [29]

Many types of brutal torture were employed by the Inquisitors, suchas mutilation of body parts, fire torture and drownings. The detailsof this torture are too ghastly and horrid to contemplate for anysane human being.

"Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in front of theirparents whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sure they missednothing. Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person couldremain conscious even when all that remained was a torso and ahead."[30]

The archbishop of Evora, in Portugal, eventually wrote, "Ifeverywhere the Inquisition was an infamous court, the infamy, howeverbase, however vile, however corrupt and determined by worldlyinterests, it was never more so than in Goa. [31]

No body knows the exact number of Goans subjected to these diabolicaltortures; low estimates put the number in the tens of thousands, highestimates are in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps even more. Theabominations of these inquisitions continued from 1560 until a briefrespite was given in 1774, but four years later, the inquisition wasintroduced again and it continued un-interruptedly until 1812 -- theinquisition in Goa wend on for over two-hundred and fifty years. Atthat point in time, in the year of 1812, the British put pressure onthe Portuguese to put an end to the terror of the Inquisition and thepresence of British troops in Goa enforced the British desire.[32]

Dr. Trasta Breganka Kunha, a Catholic citizen of Goa writes, "Inspiteof all the mutilations and concealment of history, it remains anundoubted fact that religious conversion of Goans is due to methodsof force adopted by the Portuguese to establish their rule. As aresult of this violence the character of our people was destroyed.The propagation of Christian sect in Goa came about not by religiouspreaching but through the methods of violence and pressure. If anyevidence is needed for this fact, we can obtain it through law books,orders and reports of the local rulers of that time and also from themost dependable documents of the Christian sect itself."[33]

A proposed celebration for the 500 year anniversary of Vasco deGama's arrival in India was fiercly proposed and successfullystopped, bringing together a surprising alliance of Hindus, Muslims,left wing campaigners and environmentalists.

The Gaur-Sarasvata Brahmins were one such sect who had to flee at thehands of the invading fanatics. Now their sect is situated in thestate of Karnataka. Leaving everything behind and starting fromscratch they are now a very well to do and prosperous community.Their temples rival any in the world. Still practicing their ancientVedic religion, the Gaur-Sarasvata Brahmins are recognized for theirdignity, honesty and contributions to society. This soundly nullifiesthe idea propagated by the Christian zealots that Hindu religion isheathen and pagan.

Frances Xavier is commonly known as 'St. Francis Xavier,' 'the PatronSaint of the East.' He is still worshipped, prayed to and honored asthe pure representative of Jesus Christ and his gospel by Christiansall over the world. There are innumerable hospitals, schools, andother institutions in India named after him. Even today thearchdiocese of Goa boasts,

"The glorious chapter of the expansion of the Catholic Church in theeast can be said to have begun after the European 'discovery' of thesea route to India in 1498. This helped the coming of the Europeanfathers to these lands, one of them being St. Francis Xavier, thegreat Apostle of the East and Patron of the Missions. Goa isprivileged to have been the starting point of his Church work laboursand the place where his sacred remains are preserved. Goa was calledthe "Rome of the East" due to the central role it played inevangelization of the east." [34]

India today is ruled by a secular government modeled after thewestern democracies. What many Indians do not understand is that theidea of secular government, first seen in the United States ofAmerica, was a reaction to the theocratic tyrannies that pervaded theDark Ages of Europe all the way to the founding of the Americannation. Separation of religion and government were an effort to wardoff and prevent any Christian theocracy from taking control in moderntimes.

Now the Christian tactics have changed, but their underlying premisethat 'Christianity is the only true religion' nullifies all theirattempts of portraying themselves as tolerant and loving. The realityis that Christianity has not changed its theology, it has onlychanged its techniques of conversion. Christian evangelists are nowusing vast amounts of wealth (billions of US dollars) to spread theirpropaganda.

Mission activity in India comes in the guise of helping thedowntrodden, sick and helpless. In reality the aim is the same -- toconvert all to Christianity and in the wake destroy all the culturesand religions that lie in the way. There is no need to abuse, attack,or condemn the Non-Christian religions. The plain truth is theChristian Missionaries work with usage of lies, falsehood, andhypocrisy. The social improvement facade is only a camouflage ordisguise for conversion work.

Why should the Christian Missionaries want to collect converts?Because it is in the nature of the religions of exclusivity (Islamand Christianity) to try to make every one like them in terms ofreligion.

They have no use, whatsoever, for pluralism or respect for otherreligions; in fact what they have is pure contempt for otherreligions. Further, this exclusivity attachment and attitude comesstraight from the horse's mouth i.e. from their scriptures. Forinstance, in the Bible Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15-16, and Luke24:46-47 every Christian is commanded to make converts and it is theduty of every Christian to uphold these commands of the Bible.

A glance at their activities in India clearly reveals that theChristian Missionaries denigrate and demonize the Hindus every singleday. Hinduism is equated with Devil Worship and Hindus are describedas Heathens, as workers for the Devil, and as lost souls who areheaded straight to hell.

Now-a-days, in most civilized countries, open and outright utteranceof ignoble and unflattering slurs and put downs on the basis of race,religion, creed, or other affiliation is not tolerated because it hasbeen legislated as illegal. But in Pseudo-Secular India, Hindus canbe freely insulted, abused, degraded and dragged into mud, by theChristian Missionaries with impunity, without any fear of lawsuit.

They freely broadcast their Hate-Hindu, vile and vituperativepropaganda into Indian villages and cities.

Because the preacher of Christianity single-mindedly believes hisloathing gospels of hate, seeing them as divine commands from hisreligion, he utters venom and vindictiveness against the Hindu withzeal and with [in their estimation] a clear conscience.

Nearly every single day, rhetoric similar to the words below confirmthe reality that Christianity, while posing as a religion of love,peace and tolerance is anything but that.

"These Hindu Heathens have their idols and their superstitions, theiridol-bearing temples and shrines where they conduct their noisyfoolish rituals and ceremonies. They generate a lot of evil. They aretotally ignorant that Jesus Christ came to overcome death. There is agreat need to propagate the Christian Gospel amongst them."

Only now is India beginning to realize what the Christian Missionactivity is really all about. This is evidenced in states likeNagaland, Mizoram, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and in other areas inNortheast India. As soon as Christians become a majority in a givenarea, they sow the venom of hatred and strife, turning family memberagainst family member, villager against villager and instigate theirChristian followers to ask for self-determination and a ChristianHomeland. This is virtually the same technique that the Moslemscontinue to use with success.

As soon as a convert is made, they are greatly encouraged tovehemently and publicly denigrate their previous culture, traditionsand everything related to it. This greatly disrupts the entirecommunity and its normal social and economic activities.

Militant Christians in several of these Northeastern Indian provinceshave been forcing non-Christian residents to either convert toChristianity or face capital punishment. With death staring at theirface, most of the adult members have fled the villages to escapetorture, resulting in disruption of agricultural activities. Buddhistleaders of both the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh havestrongly condemned the heinous carnage committed by the militants onthe peace-loving Buddhists and tribal cult followers.

Because Hindus now know what the Christians are up to, it is time totake some serious steps to counter the Christian propaganda andinstill pride in Indians across the nation for their glorious pastand distinguished Vedic heritage.

For Additional Information on the Goan Inquisition, please visit: ThePortuguese Invasion of Goa Details of the Goan Inquisition HinduGenocide in Goa

Conclusion

Christians have always portrayed non-Christian civilizations asbackwards, underdeveloped, superstitious, and barbaric. What reallyunderlies all of their criticism is that these cultures do not acceptJesus, the Bible and their western way of life. This is what, in theChristians' opinion, deems these cultures as needing their help, whenin fact the their fervor to destroy any theistic conception otherthan Christianity or any temple other than a church shows that theyare really the ones who are showing the qualities of barbarians.

Today, many are uninformed and believe that mission excesses onlytook place in prior times and today's preaching works are a 'goodthing.' But as long as the basic premises and theology that underlyall the abuses that took place in the past are not corrected, theresult of mission activities will remain the same: Genocide anddestruction of all that lies in its way, replacing it with the'superior religion and culture' that most missionaries believe theyare delivering.

In retrospect, these various ethnic cultures were far better offbefore the introduction of Christianity, as it had nothing better tooffer them. In reality, these cultures were decimated, theirhistories were erased, their cultural traditions eradicated, theirformer religions destroyed and they were left more unhappy thanbefore the arrival of Christianity.

There have been many revisions in the teachings of Jesus Christ sinceit first took hold some 2,000 years ago. But until the xenophobic andiconoclastic teachings of the Bible are corrected, mission activitywill yield the same catastrophic results. As taught in the Bible, 'wecan know a tree by its fruit,' these evangelists need to adopt a morepluralistic theology, recognizing the divinity in other religions andthe contributions of other cultures and further recognize that theirsis not the only path to salvation. Suffice it to say, until thesethings have been corrected, that to label such endeavors for Christas good works or pious activity is wrong.

Otherwise, in this modern age, those deemed with good intelligence,who are advanced in philosophy and science, have no other choice thanto condemn these preaching activities worldwide, which seek todestroy ethnic cultures. Mission activities need to be monitored andthe conversion agenda needs to be reconsidered.

[2] Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention andPunishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of thefollowing acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killingmembers of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm tomembers of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditionsof life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in wholeor in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within thegroup; and forcibly transferring children of the group to anothergroup."

[15] Footnote source to Jefferson: The source of the statement isindeed Thomas Jefferson dating from 1807 when addressing hisSecretary of War regarding any Indians who resisted Americanexpansion into their lands.

David Stannard in American Holocaust, The Conquest of the New World,Oxford Press 1992, page 120 expands further, "These were not offhandremarks, for five years later, in 1812, Jefferson again concludedthat white Americans were obliged to drive the 'backward' Indians'with the beasts of the forests into the Stony Mountains' and oneyear later still, he added that the American government had no otherchoice before it than 'to pursue (the Indians) to extermination, ordrive them to new seats beyond our reach.' Indeed, Jefferson'swritings on Indians are filled with the straightforward assertionthat the natives are to be given a simple choice -- to beextirpate(d) from the earth' or to remove themselves out of theAmerican's way.' Had these same words been enunciate by a Germanleader in 1939 and directed at European Jews, they would be engravedin modern memory.

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